Annual meeting of the NVC Working Group on Pharmaceutical Packaging Innovation

The 15^th annual meeting NVC Project Pharmaceutical Packaging Innovation
Friday 27 June 2025, from 1:00 - 6:00 PM CEST
Leiden Bio Science Park
Plus Ultra Leiden
Emmy Noetherweg 2, Leiden
The Netherlands

The NVC Working Group on Pharmaceutical Packaging Innovation will hold its 15^th annual meeting on Friday 27 June 2025. The meeting is Live Hybrid, so you can participate physically on-site or - also interactively - online from your location anywhere.

PROGRAMME

12:00 – 1:00 PM CEST Lunch (on-site participants only)

1:00 - 4:00 PM CEST Plenary Meeting Part 1 (Live Hybrid)

Intro + recap of the previous (14^th) annual project meeting
Reviewed: the NVC Position Paper Pharmaceutical Packaging Innovation (published in 2015)
Pharma packaging and labeling technology trends and insights 2025
Legislation: the new EU Pharma Directive and other relevant legislative developments
NVC Pharma Awards 2025 judging  and presence at CPHI Europe (28-30 Oct 2025 Booth 6.1F58)
Artificial Intelligence in pharma packaging and labeling
The future is near: Medicine Packaging for a Sustainably Ageing World Population

 Packaging print, labeling: adding the right patient-related medication info to medicines

● The use of Artificial Intelligence in self-care and assisted-care
Results of a unique research project 2025 presented by Branco de Busser and prof.dr. Hans van Loof (Antwerp University)

● The new set of easy-to-understand harmonised pictogrammes in medicine
The development and introduction of a new harmonised set of pictogrammes in medicine, both for the Netherlands and for Europe, by Yara Mangindaan (the Medicine Evaluation Board MEB)

● Automation & AI for labeling artwork: The future is here
This session explores how automation and Artificial Intelligence are making the process of labeling faster, smarter, and safer. You'll learn how technologies are already changing the way businesses work and why they matter for the future, by Frank Woltering (Esko)

2:30-2:45 PM CEST BREAK

2:45 – 4:00 PM CEST

The future of self-injectors and blisters for the medicine packaging in the years 2030+

● The pharma blister pack in the years 2030+: an inventarisation by the PMF Working Group on Sustainable Blisters, introduced by Sriman Banerjee (Takeda), referencing Julie Ennis (AstraZeneca), Evan Kamph (Pfizer) and preparing for the concluding workshop

The medicine self-injector in the years 2030+

● Sharing the historic developments over the past 40 years and charting the future
Overview of products on the market (specifically by SHL Medical, Ypsomed, Nemera, Stevanato and Becton Dickinson)

4:00 - 5:00 PM CEST Plenary Meeting Part 2: Concluding workshop (on-site participants only)

● AI-assisted design of tomorrow’s weight-management medicine, by workshop leaders Serra Anker, Teodora Tasip and Michael Nieuwesteeg and all participants

Make your choice and join your group: Blister (tablet form) or Self-injector
The NVC Demo Business Case will be distributed and explained in real-time
Using (Gen)AI-tools to make rapid 3D designs of the blister/injector of the year 2030+ by using (Gen)AI to optimise the patient/user friendliness of the blister/injector
Using (Gen)AI to create an engaging and convincing presentation of the outcome
Presenting and sharing the results, taking back home all original and new insights gained

5:00 - 5:15 PM CEST Concluding debate, summary and actions 2025-2026

5:15 - 6:00  PM CEST After-party with informal talks and drinks (on-site participants only)

For information on the NVC innovation project, look here.

For the NVC Course Pharmaceutical packaging, look here.

Register here or contact the NVC association office at info@nvc.nl and phone +31-(0)182-512411